General Liu Yubiao
Forever missed
——Remembering Uncle Liu Yu and Aunt Zhao Qian
Cheng Jiangjiang
In the long history of the Chinese revolution, during the Second Civil Revolutionary War, the Red Tenth Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army led by Fang Zhimin was one of the most tragic and tragic of the thirty-five Red Army troops at that time. Under the leadership of Fang Zhimin, my fathers, Jiang Tianhui and Uncle Liu Yubiao, both participated in the peasant revolt and participated in the establishment of the Soviet base area in northeast Jiangxi, and joined the Communist Party of China in 1928 and 1930 respectively, fighting together with cadres in the Red Tenth Army sequence and the red revolutionary base area in northeast Jiangxi. Due to the erroneous leadership of Wang Ming's "Left" opportunism, after the total annihilation of the Red Tenth Army at Huaiyushan, the main Red Army had already moved north, and they all survived and remained behind to persist in guerrilla warfare for three years, during which time they worked together in the Anhui, Zhejiang, and Gansu Provincial Committees of the CPC.
For this reason, I have been in contact with Uncle Liu and Aunt Zhao Qian many times since I was a teenager, and I know some things related to Uncle Liu, which have left an indelible impression on me in my life.
General Liu Yubiao took a group photo with his wife Zhao Qian on his eightieth birthday
In the spring of 1961, my father took me to meet Uncle Liu and Aunt Zhao Qian for the first time at the Guest House of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee. What impressed me very deeply was that Aunt Zhao Qian was kind and kind, and Uncle Liu was very much like a person who read books, white, and he couldn't see like a general who fought at all, but he had a lot of scars on his face, which impressed me deeply. As soon as I came out of the guest house, I asked my father, is Uncle Liu's face injured? Dad told me very simply that when Uncle Liu was in the Red Army, he fought a vicious battle with the Kuomintang in Zhejiang, suffered very serious injuries, was captured by the enemy, and was severely tortured. At that time, I was shocked, and I did not expect that the heroes in the story I saw in the book could actually see it with my own eyes.
In 1966, after the "Cultural Revolution" began, several rebels came to my father to investigate whether Uncle Liu had defected after being arrested in three years of guerrilla warfare. At that time, every time I wrote the proof materials, my father dictated it, and I wrote it for him, and after writing it, my father signed it, and then handed it to the investigators. In the process, I heard fragments of the difficult and magnificent peasant revolutionary movement in the Soviet area of northeastern Jiangxi at that time, and learned about the tragic experience of my fathers' three-year guerrilla war in the Anhui-Zhejiang-Gansu Border Region. I did not expect that Uncle Liu, a hero with scars on his body and face that I had personally seen, would be suspected organizationally and would be transferred from the position of major general of the People's Liberation Army. I remember that at that time, the rebels always asked their father: Why do you think that Liu Yubiao did not defect? Dad said: I don't think he has rebelled. He was arrested in the spring of 1937, when he was a member of the Anhui-Zhejiang-Gansu Provincial Party Committee and the Head of Organization, and I (my father) was an executive member of the Anhui-Zhejiang-Gansu Provincial Committee, so I knew that when he was arrested, he was very aware of the location of our provincial party committee and the place where the provincial party committee often met, and after his arrest, these places were not damaged; Second, we buried a batch of guns at the ×× site (the exact location I can't remember now), and after his arrest, the guns were not destroyed; Third, he knew the three county party secretaries of our central county party committee, and he did not suffer any losses after his arrest. These points, Dad gave every investigator a certificate. I remember that once the investigators were very late, and after they left, my father sat there for a long time without speaking, and later told me that in order to prove Uncle Liu's problem, before the "Cultural Revolution," the Organization Department of the Nanjing Military Region asked him to look at the materials, and the materials for the investigation were as high as the table, and he was transferred without a conclusion. Then, Dad murmured that he couldn't be a traitor, and that he would tie him up at that time and he would follow the line. I asked my father what was going on, and he said that in August 1937, after the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in full swing, under the condition of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communists and the release of political prisoners, Uncle Liu was released from the Kuomintang prison in Zhejiang, and after his release, he went straight to Xiuning, Qimen, and Wuyuan in Anhui Province, and at the end of August, he found Li Buxin and my father, the anhui special committee. At that time, because of the lack of information and the situation of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the Anhui-Gansu Special Committee did not know in detail, let alone how he was released, so it did not believe him. On the day he and the team were connected, he was asked to stand on a small tubao mountain early in the morning, and my father and a group of soldiers of the Jiangnan guerrilla brigade watched him until the sun set, making sure that there was no enemy trailing behind him, and then took him back to the team. After arriving at the guerrillas, Li Buxin and the then Anhui-Gansu Special Committee still did not believe him, and kept him locked up and put under house arrest there. I asked my father, what if the troops fight or move? Dad said, tied up and followed the horse. I remember I couldn't believe it when I heard it, and said that he was still following you? Dad said, yes, just like that, follow the revolution and follow the party. I remember very clearly, Dad said with emotion, how can such a person be a traitor?! At that time, I absolutely believed what my father said, and someone like Uncle Liu could not be a traitor. At school, I was good friends with Uncle Liu's two sons, Liu Huajian and Liu Huasu, so I told them about the rebels' investigation and my father's statement, hoping to help Uncle Liu who had been wronged. Listening to his father, under house arrest, Uncle Liu briefed the Anhui-Gansu Special Committee on the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communists and the situation that the guerrillas in the southern provinces would be reorganized into the New Fourth Army. Li Buxin, together with his father, went to the Nanchang New Fourth Army Office to find Chen Yi. Later, when Chen Yi arrived at Shehui Mountain in southern Anhui, Uncle Liu was released from house arrest. Uncle Liu and his father's Red Army detachment, as one of the eight southern provinces, were incorporated into the New Fourth Army. In the early 1980s, I was extremely happy to hear that Uncle Liu's historical problems had been clarified. My life experience after I entered the society let me know how difficult it was for Uncle Liu, Aunt Zhao Qian, and all their children in the unjust cases of more than 20 years.
Photographed in February 1938 in Yaoli, Fuliang, Jiangxi. Front row from left: Chen Shifu, Jiang Tianhui (father of the author of this article), Li Buxin, Liu Yubiao, Wang Fengqing.
My mother died in the early 1960s, as did my father at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution. I regarded my parents' comrades-in-arms as my elders, and when I saw them, I felt extremely cordial, plus I had a very good relationship with Hua Su and Hua Jian in school, and later I joined the team in the countryside together, and during the "Cultural Revolution" and after the "Cultural Revolution", I had to go to Uncle Liu's house from time to time. I have the impression that every time I go to their house, as long as I see Uncle Liu, he will talk to me for a lot of time and ask me about my work and life very carefully. The old man is very concerned about current affairs. He speaks humorously and optimistically, has a good memory, and I am especially willing to listen to him speak with the accent of his hometown in Jiangxi, and I feel that I can see my father's figure from him. In every conversation, I can always feel the heavy love of the old man for our country, for the Chinese nation. In the early 1990s, during the Chinese New Year, my lover Xiaodong and I went to Uncle Liu's house to pay respects to the New Year, and Hua Su was also at home at that time. Because of his age, the old man was no longer as talkative as before, and in listening to the warm conversation of our juniors, he suddenly asked: "Jiang Jiang, I heard that you went to a foreign country to become a foreigner?" Why not Chinese? "We had fun as soon as we heard it. Hua Su told me that the other day they told the old man that Jiang Jiang had gone abroad, and the old man probably misunderstood. Hua Su explained to him that Jiang Jiang was not going to a foreign country to become a foreigner, but that the state had sent her out to work. Uncle Liu nodded and said, "Oh, Jiang Jiang, everywhere you go, don't forget that you are a Chinese." "He also asked me how I lived in a party organization life abroad. I also told him that we are a Chinese-funded company abroad, and there are party branches and so on. When I came out of Uncle Liu's house that day, Xiaodong and I were filled with emotion, feeling that they really had no complaints or regrets all their lives, and it was precisely because of people like them who were infinitely loyal to the people of the motherland that they were able to stand on their own feet among the nations of the world.
Today, compared to the 1920s, when my father and Uncle Liu joined the revolution, china and the world have undergone incredible changes, people's values and world views have completely different yardsticks, and there are different evaluations of the history for which our fathers fought. However, as the suffering Chinese nation for thousands of years, for the survival of the nation and the rejuvenation of the country, their noble qualities and personality of successive generations of servants, who will not hesitate to sacrifice everything for themselves, and who have no regrets in their lives will forever remain in the hearts of our Chinese descendants.
Having lived overseas for many years, the children have also started a family overseas. As a revolutionary ancestor with the blood flowing through my body, I never dared to forget our fathers, and I never forgot what Uncle Liu said: "Everywhere you go, don't forget that you are a Chinese." "I told my children about the Red Army, the Northeastern Jiangsu Region, and Fang Zhimin in the land of Europe, about the three years of guerrilla warfare, and about Uncle Liu's story. Let them remember that you are Chinese, that your ancestors were peasants who came out of the lofty mountains of Jiangxi, China, who sacrificed everything for the Chinese nation to stand on its own feet among the nations of the world, and who have never complained or regretted anything in their lives. My daughter-in-law is a little girl born in the 80s, innocent, kind, fashionable, full of singers, stars, is a small star chaser. Once she asked me, Mom, did you have a star at that time? Are they handsome? Chic? Romantic? I proudly told her that the revolutionary martyrs and our fathers and fathers were the biggest stars in my heart, and I was their most enthusiastic star-chaser. Their youth fought in the great rivers and rivers of the motherland, they were willing to dedicate their blood to the people, they sacrificed, fought hard, and suffered grievances for the motherland, but they never gave up and had no regrets in their lives. In my heart, they are really dashing and romantic, I love them, admire them, and their handsome figures will always live in my heart.
On the occasion of Hua Su's letter, I wrote this article to express my eternal remembrance of my father, mother, Uncle Liu, Aunt Zhao Qian, and all the revolutionary ancestors. (June 8, 2008, Warsaw, Poland) (Note: This article was issued with the consent of Comrade Cheng Jiangjiang. ）